Monsignor Salvador Pedro Wallesa C.M.C. was Vicar Apostolic of the Mariana and Caroline Islands from 1912 to 1922.

Reverend Robert Bourne (1793-1871) went to the Society Islands as a missionary for the London Missionary Society in 1817. In 1822, he began the mission at Tahaa. He left Tahiti in 1827 and retired from the LMS to England in 1829. In 1931 he moved to Sydney, where he established a drapery store, and later to Victoria then Queensland c.1853, where he took up a position for his son-in-law, George Raff, a merchant, sugar grower and politician. Bourne is buried in the Brisbane General Cemetery, Toowong, Brisbane, alongside his wife Ann who died in 1878.

Anglican mission agency supporting the work of local Anglican churches in Melanesia, established in 1849 by George Selwyn, the first Bishop of New Zealand.

Sister Lida Tonkin (Mrs L. Gill), a nursing sister from Young, NSW, first arrived at the Methodist Mission at Raluana in New Britain in 1916.